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rounded on the edges with somewhat prominent eyes ; thorax (segment 3) is 

 humped and is as broad at the shoulders as the abdomen at segment 7 ; the 

 margin between segments 2 and 3 is very indistinct ; segment 2 is a regular, 

 semi -circular shield-like piece ; thorax front margin is rounded and the dorsal 

 line runs thence up and out over the binder margin in a rounded apex ; dorsal 

 line of segment 4 i3 parallel to the longitudinal axis of the pupa, that of seg- 

 ments 5 and 6 runs up to 7 in a gentle curve ; there is a shallow, broad constric- 

 tion of wings and dorsal region about segment 4, Spiracles oval, light brown, 

 of the usual size. Colour of pupa is silver with a broad subdorsal and spiracu- 

 lar band meeting on segment 6 which is entirely lightish brown as are the 

 bands and segments 4 and 5. except dorsally ; shoulders and inner margin of 

 wing, vertex of head, a narrow brown band along outer -wing-margin, a 

 broad thoracic dorsal band forking from apex to hinder margin, an oblong 

 mark on wing beyond discoidal cell : all lightish brown ; the cremaster is shiny 

 black, has a small knob at extremity and a round lateral tubercle at base ; anal 

 clasper-scars black. Whole surface shiny and smooth. L. 18*5 mm. ; B. at 

 segment 7 : 8*5 mm. 



Habits. — The eoo- i^ laid on the underside of a, leaf : the larva first 

 eats the eggshell, then takes to the leaf : living always on the under- 

 side. The pupation takes place in the same way as for Danais. The 

 caterpillar is much attacked by hymenopterous parasites. The butter- 

 fly is not common even in its limited habitat in the hills of Southern 

 India along the west coast and is hardly seen at all in the dry months. 

 It is fo^id of damp places and does not join in migrations. Tlie 

 foodplant of the larva is the apocynaceous creeper Ichnocarpus frutes- 

 cens, Br. 



7. Euploea core. Cramer. (PI. E, fig. 35). — The description is the same as 

 for E. coreta, the last species, except that on the underside of forewing the 

 discal spots above veins 5 and 6 are never present here and, in the male, the 

 two broad brands are replaced by a short, narrow line. Exp. 78-98 mm. 



Larva. — The larva is of the usual shape with a shiny black patch dorsally 

 near extremity, a dorsal black shield posteriorly on segment 2 and four pairs 

 of subdorsal tentacles on segments 3, 4, G and 12, one pair to each, the pair on 

 segment 3 longest, reaching beyond the head, moveable, the last pair shortest : 

 about as long as the larva is high, fixed. Head similar to that of the last 

 species with a covering of very fine, adpressed, colourless hairs ; black with 

 marginal white band, another down each side of clypeus and a white labrum. 

 The spiracles are oval, shiny black and situated in the orange band. Surface 

 of body smooth, the tentacles densely covered with short, erect, black hairs. 

 Colour of tentacles and body dark-brown, sometimes with a tinge of claret, 

 transversely banded with white (or colour of body bluish- white, banded with 

 brown), five bands to each segment, of different lengths on one segment running 

 into an irregularly bordered broad white spiracular band which is more or less 



